Arthur to Fraggle Rock: The Music of Canadian Kids' TV

The songs

1. **The Arthur theme** — the Believe in Yourself anthem (see our features): the jazz pop song that taught kindness (see our features).
2. **The Fraggle Rock theme** — the Henson collaboration (see our features): the work song as the children's standard (see our features).
3. **The Sesame Street Canadian *segments** — the Sainte-Marie era (see our Buffy feature): the first Indigenous representation on children's TV (see our features).
4. **The Polka Dot Door era** — the gentle songs (see our TV-themes feature): the pre-school canon (see our features).
5. **The Degrassi themes** — the generational earworms (see our Degrassi feature): the teen canon (see our features).
6. **The Mr. Dressup songs** — the make-believe music (see our features): the imagination anthems (see our features).
7. **The kids' TV *composers** — the unsung writers (see our NFB feature): the children's music craft (see our features).

The kids'-TV thesis

The children's TV music (see our features) teaches (see our features) everything (see our features): the melody (see our features), the kindness (see our features), the first representation (see our features), the first earworms (see our features). The (see our features) kids (see our features) grow (see our features) up (see our features) and (see our features) carry (see our features) the (see our features) songs (see our features) forever (see our features) — the (see our features) canon (see our features) begins (see our features) here (see our features). The (see our features) children (see our features) listen (see our features). The (see our features) adults (see our features) remember (see our features). The (see our features) songs (see our features) hold (see our features).